Devil of Karbala

The "Devil of Karbala" (died 2007) was a foreign fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq who was known for his killing of several American soldiers in Operation Powderhorn in 2007.

Biography
The "Devil of Karbala" is often identified with Rajab Shafi, a national of Saudi Arabia from Mecca. Shafi was a strict adherent of Wahhabism, and he decided to join al-Qaeda's Mesopotamian organization, the Islamic State of Iraq. Taking up arms as a rifleman, he fought against the US Army and US Marine Corps in the Iraq War from 2006, and he earned a name for himself as an infamous fighter when he gunned down two American soldiers within five seconds with an AK-47 during Operation Powderhorn in Karbala, Iraq. The "Devil of Karbala" was later killed by the Americans in the fight for Karbala.